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Jeffrey A. Tucker Jeffrey Tucker is Founder, Author, and President at Brownstone Institute. He is also Senior Economics Columnist for Epoch Times, author of 10 books, including Liberty or Lockdown, and thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press. He speaks widely on topics of economics, technology, social philosophy,
Kris Gledhill Auckland University of Technology The new coalition government has made its campaign promise to crack down on gangs a priority in its 100-day action plan. But whether the new “get tough” policy genuinely plugs gaps in existing legislation is very much open to question. The policy was laid
When is a tax not a tax? When the government doesn’t want to admit that it’s imposing yet another tax. So, they call it a “levy”, a “duty”, or even just a “price”. Because they know perfectly well that if they were thieving yet more of people’s
Bryce Edwards Dr Bryce Edwards is the Political Analyst in Residence at Victoria University of Wellington. He is the director of the Democracy Project. Victoria University of Wellington democracyproject.nz Have political donations and lobbying from the natural health sector led to the incoming government’s decision to repeal the
Influences at work during Covid twisted our thinking using irrational fear and withholding solutions that might have alleviated those fears; in the process revealing the absence of three big-ticket political items: genuine political opposition, a properly functioning fourth estate and academic institutions exhibiting fair and open debate. The pursuit of
Michael Bassett Political historian Michael Bassett CNZM is the author of 15 books, was a regular columnist for the Fairfax newspapers and a former Minister in the 1984-1990 governments bassettbrashandhide.com In case you are in any doubt, the New Zealand Herald, with TV1 in hot pursuit, has taken over
It is ironic that Labour’s colours are red, the same colour as the sea of red ink in the Government’s books left by arguably the worst Finance Minister in New Zealand’s history, Grant Robertson. Grant Robertson should be ashamed. The books are in much worse shape than
The parliamentary summer break surely couldn’t have come soon enough for Anthony Albanese. The last months of 2023 have been a constant bludgeon for the Australian PM. The discontent that simmered for most of the year over spiralling cost-of-living, driven largely by both “Net Zero” and a tsunami of
I’m not the world’s biggest Elon Musk fan: the fellow does some great things, some awful things, and a whole lot of very silly things. But, he was absolutely correct, when he said, What I see all over the place is people who care about looking good while
Kurt Mahlburg Kurt Mahlburg is a writer and author, and an emerging Australian voice on culture and the Christian faith. He has a passion for both the philosophical and the personal, drawing on his background as a graduate architect, a primary school teacher, a missionary, and a young adult pastor.
The most important thing centrists and conservatives need to remember about the left is that they never, ever take “No” for an answer. No matter how many times they’re democratically told to shove off, the left scream and stamp their feet and hold their breath until they get their
Bryce Edwards Dr Bryce Edwards is the Political Analyst in Residence at Victoria University of Wellington. He is the director of the Democracy Project. Victoria University of Wellington democracyproject.nz Political commentators and journalists are dismayed by what has happened to the Kiwirail Interislander ferry upgrade project. Ever since the
The most effective censorship is one where the authorities don’t have to do anything at all: everyone pre-emptively censors themselves. Which, as George Orwell pointed out, was the whole reason for NewSpeak: anti-Party thought would be literally unsayable, and thus un-thinkable. In a remarkable but lesser-known Swedish novel, Kallocain,
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Chris Trotter Victoria University of Wellington democracyproject.nz SURVEYING LABOUR’S savagely diminished caucus, only two MPs stand out as credible future leaders: Keiran McAnulty and Ginny Andersen. Before such a combination could accede to the leadership, however, both the Labour caucus and the Labour Party would have to undergo
